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Show SLEEPING SIDE BY SIDE 'American nnd Briton Died in Ia Great Naval Duel Sldo by sldo In a graveyard In Portland, Port-land, Me., awaiting the last call, sleep two naval captains, ono American nnd the other English. They were kilted In ono of the most spirited sea duels of the War of 161:. Lieutenant William Ilurrows commanded com-manded tbo United Htates brig Enter-prise, Enter-prise, which, on September S. 1813, sought out and overcame tho Hrltlsh brig Iloxcr, Captain Bamuel Illyth, off Portland Harbor, and so near tho land that Henry Wadsworth I.ongfellow, then a boy of six, could heir In his Jiome the reverberations of the guns And the poet, In years after, when lilt (boyhood daya In Portland were n remi niscence, wrote I remembered the sea fight, far away, How It thundered o'er the tide! And the dead captains they lay In their graves o'crlooklng fie tranquil tran-quil bay Where they In bittle dltd At the first brnsdslrte, whl'ti Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Ilurrows was helping his men ran out a cannonade he hf mortally wounded by a musket ball, but he refuted re-futed to be carried bs'ow, nn- dying on the deck, be watched tb fght to ilbe end. At tho first broadside, too, Captain Illyth was killed Instantly by an 18-pound 18-pound ball through bis abdomen. After a forty-mlnulo fight the Englishman was compelled to cnll for quarter, as Captain Illyth had had his flag nailed to tho matt, and It could not be hauled haul-ed down. Lieutenant Ilurrows' triumph tri-umph was completo, for when the enemy was boarded tho sword ot hit doad antagonist was taken from the Iloier to tho Enterprise and placed In the hands ot tho lieutenant, who ex-c'almcd: ex-c'almcd: "I am satisfied. I die content" con-tent" Out of a crow ot 102 the Enterprise lost In killed before Uio action was over her commander nnd a teaman, and Midshipman ICIrvon Waters, and n carpenter's mate mortally wounded Tho young middy lived lets than twenty twen-ty days, and wiie burled next to his V ) commander, and a slab set on pillars was put over his grave by the young men ot rottland Lieutenant McCall, who succeeded to tho command ot tho Enterprise after his superior was wounded, took both vessels Into Portland, reaching the harbor two days after the battle The rofllns containing the bodies wera placed In barges and amid the booming of minute guns were rowed In minute strokes by shipmasters and mates to the shore At the Isndlng place wai formed a pi ocrstlon, In which marched march-ed the Holer's officers on parole, snd tho lino moved to a meeting house, where services were held. Then the dead captains were laid nway In the eastern cemetery. Tho officers of the Boxer put up a monument over the body of their com-mandcr, com-mandcr, but for several years the grave ot Captain Ilurrows was neglected. neglect-ed. Ono day Matthew 1 Davis ot New York was In the cemetery and saw the deplorable condition of tbe gravo of this young hero of a war, brilliant nt least on tbe water, and he caused a tombstone to be erected. On tho side of Captain Hlyth's gravestone grave-stone Is tho Union Jack, while on the tombstone of his conqueror appears the Btars nnd Stripes. Lieutenant Ilurrows was twenty-eight twenty-eight years old and had been with Preble who also Is burled in this graveyard In our glorious llttlo war with Tripoli. Captain Illyth was a year the sonU. of his antagonist, and was distinguished In naval warfare. He was one of tho pnllbetrers In Hall-fax, Hall-fax, at tho funeral of tho Chesapeake's commander. Captain Lawrence, who is burled In Trinity cemetery, New York. That America was as generout then to tho fallen foe at she now Is to their memory Is evident In the account ac-count of a naval dinner In New York soon 'after tbe battle, ono of tbe toattt being "The Crow of the Boxer Enemies Ene-mies by Law, but by (lallantry Broth-era." |